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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The nightmare of having little or no memory is told in Christopher Nolan’s film Memento released in 2000. The severely amnesic main character has messages tattooed into his own flesh in order to conserve basic clues about himself and his history and he has to record even the most recent events by Polaroid if he is to retain them. Apart from providing the pretext for an effective thriller the extremes of amnesia represented in the film underscore the fact that memory is one of the most vital of our faculties the apparatus that allows for recognition (re-cognition) without which the powers of cognition itself remain transient and unframed. However memory is never just a straightforward process of recording lest we forget and even in the best equipped of minds it can be a slippery mechanism. It can be both elusive and intrusive and we can rarely be completely sure of its fidelity to the events or (LL)